Wing Nuts Arise!! -- JADE HELM BEGINS, BURY YOUR GUNS!!

[Mr. Desmond]

(humor)

"I try not to listen to all these conspiracy-theory-type people. All they’re worried about is their beer and their guns.”

In other news...

Obama is taking over in an attempt for a 3rd term... and he is in Oklahoma today to announce Martial Law...

Wing Nuts on the prowl.. See Alex Jones

It's from the plot of a bad "B Movie".

Okay

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/in-texas-a-military-exercise-is-met-by-some-with-suspicion.html?hp&action;=click&pgtype;=Homepage&module;=second-column-region&region;=top-news&WT.nav;=top-news

In Texas, a Military Exercise Is Met by Some With Suspicion BY MANNY FERNANDEZ Jade Helm 15, a seven-state training exercise that the Army and local officials say is no cause for alarm, has generated paranoia for months fueled by conservative bloggers.

CHRISTOVAL, Tex. — The beige-metal community center on Main Street here next door to the fire station, the scene of 4-H Club meetings and family reunions, may never be the same. Jade Helm 15 is coming.

One resident said a friend of his, a Vietnam veteran, started burying some of his firearms to hide them. A farmer was rumored to have taken a different approach, by buying 20,000 rounds of ammunition. The superintendent of the school district thought he saw low-flying military cargo planes overhead. Members of the Christoval Volunteer Fire Department, which owns the community center, signed an agreement with military officials stating — oddly to some, suspiciously to others — that the Army will pay for any damage to the building after it uses it.

Sindy Miller, who runs a hair salon on Main Street, said fears of a military takeover have been the talk of this West Texas town, southeast of Midland.

“They’re worried that they’re going to come in and take their firearms away,” Ms. Miller said. “Martial law, basically. I try not to listen to all these conspiracy-theory-type people. All they’re worried about is their beer and their guns.”

Jade Helm 15, an eight-week military exercise that has generated paranoia for months fueled by conservative bloggers and Internet postings, begins Wednesday in Texas and six other states: Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Utah.

The Army’s Green Berets, Navy SEALs and other Special Operations troops will be conducting drills on private property, military bases and some public facilities. According to military documents, more than 1,200 service members will participate in the operation in Texas, in more than a dozen mostly small towns and rural counties.

Army officials say there is no cause for alarm.

“The public can expect little disruption in their day-to-day activities since much of the exercise will be conducted in remote areas,” the organizer of the exercise, the Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., said in a statement Monday.

But in a larger sense, Jade Helm 15 has already caused disruptions, particularly in Texas.

On the orders of Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas State Guard will monitor Jade Helm 15 from Camp Mabry in Austin, the state capital. So will at least one national group of unofficial monitors and protesters that calls itself Counter Jade Helm. It plans to have teams of volunteers follow Army vehicles and post their locations to its website. Army planners and local elected officials have been busy answering questions from apprehensive residents and holding briefings for the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas, the San Angelo Tea Party and county commissioners.

Off-base training exercises involving role-playing are not new — candidates for the Army’s Special Forces take part in a four-week drill known as Robin Sage in rural North Carolina — but the size and scope of Jade Helm 15 make it unusual.

The military exercise will train Special Operations troops in what Army planners call “unconventional warfare.” The exercise is being conducted in rural Texas because the military needed “large areas of undeveloped land with low population densities with access to towns,” and wanted soldiers to adapt to unfamiliar terrain as well as social and economic conditions, according to Army documents.

In East Texas, near the Louisiana border, the troops have permission in Marion County to use their aircraft on a private runway. The community center in Christoval will be used for, as one local official described it, “an altercation site.” A nighttime helicopter “extraction” will unfold in Disaster City, a mock community in College Station where emergency responders train.

Local officials who have been briefed on the exercise say it is modeled after the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II . It calls for some military personnel to play the role of the occupiers and for others to work undetected as part of the resistance. Military maps show Texas and Utah as “hostile,” other states as “permissive,” and still others as uncertain but leaning hostile or friendly.

Much of the paranoia over Jade Helm 15 is the outgrowth of an anti-Obama sentiment that is widespread in Texas and parts of the Southwest.

“It stems from an absolute distrust with the Obama administration,” said Judge Stephen C. Floyd of Tom Green County, its top elected official. “I share a lot of their distrust of the Obama administration and their rule-making, but I have a great deal of confidence in the U.S. military.”

According to some right-wing bloggers and activists, the exercise is part of a secret plot by the Obama administration to impose martial law, confiscate firearms, invade red-state Texas or prepare for instituting “total population control.” A report on Infowars, a website operated by Alex Jones, a libertarian-leaning talk radio host from Texas, suggested Helm was an acronym for Homeland Eradication of Local Militants.

[boogielicious]

I think they're planning on giving Texas back to Mexico.  It will really help control the illegal immigration problem. Arizona is next.

[Chilli Dipper]

Alex Jones and his followers are very sick people who can't (or won't) seek the medical help they need to curtail their own delusions. Take pity upon them.

[rkim291968]

Chuckle.

On a reality show about Alaska, one guy was building a fortress (a house) in a remote area.   He was convinced that US government will take over his freedom.   My memory of the show's detail is fuzzy but I recall it was entertaining ... and sad that some people are so out of touch with reality.   Then again, it may just be the show's script to spice things up to boost its rating.

[ghalfaire]

I think they're planning on giving Texas back to Mexico.  It will really help control the illegal immigration problem.  Arizona is next.

Actually I believe Mexico is going to apply for statehood to become our 51 ^st Star.

[rkim291968]

My money is on Puerto Rico to become the 51st State.

[Jon Hoover]

My money is on Puerto Rico to become the 51st State.

lol not anytime soon they need to get their debt under control first they are in some real trouble.

[rkim291968]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkim291968

My money is on Puerto Rico to become the 51st State.

lol not anytime soon they need to get their debt under control first they are in some real trouble.

That was my point ...

[Moppy]

Moonbats Arise! (Humor)

Socialist who thinks Greece's only problem is that we won't give them more money is drawing huge crowds!

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/7/sen_bernie_sanders_self_described_socialist

[isukgolf]

Wait ... the government is not taking over? I can stop digging my under ground bunker? :bugout:

[boogielicious]

Wait ... the government is not taking over? I can stop digging my under ground bunker? :bugout:

Keep digging. It's a great place to store extra golf clubs!